Window curtain supporter



Dec. 3, 1 940.

P. BRODBECK WINDOW CURTAIN SUPPORTER Filed April 1, 1940 INVENTORPauZBrocZeck 7 ATITO EY Patented Dec. 3, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE WINDOW CURTAIN sumo-area Paul Brodbeck, New York, N. Y.

Application April 1, 1940, Serial No. 327,121

1 Claim.

This invention relates to devices intended for supporting the horizontalsustaining rods for ourtains and drapes in such manner that said rodsand suspended curtaining may be lowered by a person standing on thefloor to a working elevation for removing and remounting of the rods andcurtaining, and to restore the rods and ourtaining to operative elevatedcondition, without necessitating standing up on stools or climbing ofstep ladders for reaching up to the tops of windows, which efiorts arearduous and often dangerous to members of households.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device for theabove purpose which will be conveniently, readily, and economicallymanufacturable, salable at low cost, conveniently and readilyutilizable, light, strong, durable, eificient, and which will not marthe window frame or curtaining.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a general front elevation showingthe window curtaining supporter of the invention in a greatly reducedscale, with the device illustrated as it appears when in operativeposition.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the supporter shown in Fig. 1, butillustrating it as it appears when dropped for manipulation.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the supporting device, in anenlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is an actual size front elevation of the lower hinging fitting ofthe device.

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the fitting shown in Fig.4, taken on line 5--5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is an actual size front elevation of the upper terminal andlocking fitting of the supporting device.

Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the terminal and fittingshown in Fig. 6, taken on the line 'l-! of Fig. 6, and illustratingthese parts as they appear when in automatically interlocked state.

To each side of the window frame I is secured a fitting 2, at anelevation conveniently reachable by the user when standing on the fioor,and said fitting, Figs. 4, 5, comprises a rear Wall 3 having holes 4 forfastening screws 5, side walls 6, a front wall 1, and a pintle 8 rivetedto the side walls 6. Directly above each of the fittingsZ is secured afitting 9 to the window frame I, at an elevation required for theoperative location of the curtain and drape rods l0, Fig. 3, the fitting9, Figs. 6, '7, comprising a rear wall H having holes 12 for fasteningscrews l3, side Walls l4, and an upstanding hook l5, preferably formedby stamping out a portion of the rear wall II, as shown in Fig. '7.

The rods I 9 are mountable on and demountable from, in customary manner,a pair of pins l6 welded to each terminal of vertical rods H, as shownin Fig. 3. Each rod I1 is channeled in cross-sectional configuration,having a front wall l8 to which the pins l6 are welded at 19, Fig. 7,and side walls 20, the ends of which are longitudinally guidable by thewalls of fittings 2 and 9. The lower end of rod I1 is provided withvertical slots 21 in its walls 20, through which passes the pintle 8 offitting 2, whereby the rod is vertically slidable in this fitting and inits complementary fitting 9 to a stroke governed by the length of saidslots. When the rod I1 is slid upwardly, the lower extremities of itsslots 2| engage the pintle 8 and the rod becomes swingable about saidpintle as a hinge, from its normal vertical position indicated indash-and-dot lines in Fig. 2 to the dropped position illustrated. Theupper terminal of the rod I1 is provided with an inverted hook 22,preferably formed of a bent extension of the front wall ill of the rod,Fig. 7. When the rod I1 is swung backwardly to normal vertical position,and then permitted to slide downwardly, its inverted hook 22 drops intothe upstanding hook I5 of complementary fitting 9 and thereby interlocksthe terminal of the rod with the fitting, in the manner shown in Fig.'7, with the upper extremities of the slots 2| in engagement with thepintle 8 of fitting 2. When the rods H are in their dropped positionillustrated in Fig. 2', their front walls l8 abut against the upper edge23 of front wall 1 of fitting 2, in which manner the drop is arrestedand the rods are maintained in their lowered position.

In installing the supporter, it merely requires appropriate location ofthe fittings 2, 9 upon the window frame, and securing them with thescrews 5, [3. When it is desired to hang the curtaining upon the windowequipped with this device, the curtains 24 are strung upon the rods IDin the usual manner, and the latter are thus prepared to be mounted uponthe pins [6. The vertical rods I! are then slid upwardly, to disengagethe hooks 22, i5, and the rods are swung downwardly to their loweredstate, thereby bringing their upper terminals and pins Hi to reachableelevation, whereupon the rods It] are mounted over the pins [6 in usualmanner. The rods l1 may be then swung backwardly to their normalvertical position and let slide downwardly, to lockingly reengage thehooks 22, i", to complete the suspension of the curtains and drapes 24,which may be thereafter as readily and conveniently removed and renewedby merely reversing the foregoing steps, and without requiring anyresort to getting up on stools or ladders, or subjecting to any danger.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, andportions of the improvements may be used Without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A window curtain supporter having the combination of a pair of verticalrods for the sides of a window frame, each of the upper terminals ofsaid rods carrying means for thereon mounting a curtain rod, a lowerfitting for each of said.

rods being securable to the window frame at manually reachableelevation, the lower terminals of said rods being hinged to saidfittings to swing the rods from vertical to dropped positions, an upperfitting for the upper end of each of said rods being securable to thewindow frame, said hinging comprising vertical slots and pintles forsaid rods and lower fittings to permit said rods to slide longitudinallyvertically in said upper and lower fittings, and said upper fitting andterminals having complementary hooks to engage each other when said rodsare slid downwardly and disengage from each other when said rods areslid upwardly. PAUL BRODBECK.

